23RD GENERATION

5014786. King Robert I of Scotland Robert de Bruce VIII was born on 11 Jul 1274 in Writtle, , , Scotland. He died on 7 Jul 1329 in Cardross, , , Scotland. Reigned 1306-1329

ROBERT VIII DE BRUCE, OR ROBERT THE BRUCE King of Scotland (1306-29), who freed Scotland from English rule, winning the decisive Battle of Bannockburn (1314) and ultimately confirming Scottish independence in the Treaty of Northampton (1328).
He was married to Isabel about 1295.

5014787. Isabel died before 1302. Children were:

1253793 i. Marjorie Bruce.
ii. King David Bruce II was born in 1324. Reigned 1329-1371

King of Scots from 1329, although he spent 18 years in exile or in prison. His
reign was marked by costly intermittent warfare with England (a stage in the
Scottish Wars of Independence), a decline in the prestige of the monarchy, and
an increase in the power of the barons.

On July 17, 1328, in accordance with the Anglo-Scottish peace treaty of
Northampton, the four-year-old David was married to Joanna, sister of King
Edward III of England. The boy succeeded his father, Robert I the Bruce, as king
of Scots on June 7, 1329. A rival claimant to the Scottish throne, Edward de
Balliol, a vassal of Edward III, became de facto king after Edward's victory
over Sir Archibald Douglas, regent since 1332, at Halidon Hill, Northumberland
(July 19, 1333). In 1334 David went into exile in France, where he was
maintained generously by King Philip VI. In 1339 and 1340 he fought in Philip's
fruitless campaigns against Edward III. By 1341 he was able to return to
Scotland, but he did little as king except to make futile raids into England.
During the French siege of English-held Calais he attempted a diversion on
behalf of Philip VI but was defeated, wounded, and captured at Neville's Cross,
County Durham (Oct. 17, 1346).

Held prisoner by the English, David was released in 1357 in return for a
promised ransom that proved to be more than the Scottish government could pay.
In 1363 David, now on cordial terms with Edward III, proposed that a son of the
English king should succeed to the throne of Scotland in return for the
cancellation of the ransom. The arrangement, which made an enemy of his nephew
and lawful successor, the future Robert II, was repudiated by the Scottish
Parliament. In his last years David inspired further opposition by his financial
extravagance.